TOM Baker has branded his Doctor Who predecessor Jon Pertwee a tight-fisted, “insufferable know-all”.Liverpool-born Baker, who took over the Tardis from 1974 to 1981, also made an off-colour joke that he triggered the heart attack which killed Pertwee in 1996.
Baker, 76, said: “Jon Pertwee was an insufferable know-all… Jon found it physically impossible to buy a drink.”
He added: “He liked the idea of big sums of money for voiceovers, so I would say in Jon’s earshot that someone had offered me £15,000 for a voiceover, but I turned it down because it was going to take a whole hour.
“This wasn’t true, but I could hear Jon’s heart pounding. In fact, he died of a heart attack shortly after that. I think that’s why.”
Baker also told Dr Who Magazine how he failed to persuade the BBC to let him snog his female co-stars, or to have a “talking frog or badger” assist the Time Lord.
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